美語情景對話 第398期:Trip to Mexico 去墨西哥旅行

Senem: Hey, Shawn, how are you.doing?

塞內姆：嗨，肖恩，你過得怎麼樣？

Shawn: Good, good, how are you?

肖恩：很好，我過得很好，你呢？

Senem: Good thank you. I just wanted to ask you, what were you thinking of doing during the summer vacation?

塞內姆：我也很好，謝謝你。我只是想問你，暑假你打算做什麼？

Shawn: Um, I don't have a set plan really. I'd like to go to Mexico with somebody but I can't seem to find anybody to go with.

肖恩：嗯，我其實還沒有計劃。我想找個人一起去墨西哥玩，可是我沒有找到可以和我一起去的人。

Senem: Oh, my gosh, that is so strange. I really want to go to Mexico, too.

塞內姆：哦，天哪，這真奇怪。我也很想去墨西哥。

Shawn: Really!

肖恩：真的嗎？

Senem: Yeah.

塞內姆：是啊。

Shawn: Well, you know, summer vacation starts in about 10 days, I mean, so why don't we book our tickets together.

肖恩：你知道，10天以後暑假就開始了，我是說，我們爲什麼不一起訂機票呢？

Senem: That would be great.

塞內姆：那真是太好了。

Shawn: Awesome.

肖恩：太棒了。

Senem: Wait a minute. Have you been to Mexico before?

塞內姆：等等，你以前去過墨西哥嗎？

Shawn: Yeah, I've been to Cancun once before.

肖恩：去過，我曾經去過一次坎昆。

Senem: That's really good, because I haven't been to Mexico, so I wouldn't know where to go.

塞內姆：那真是太好了，因爲我沒去過墨西哥，所以我都不知道要去哪裏。

Shawn: Ah, well, I can show you some great bars and some great places to go swimming and diving.

肖恩：嗯，我可以告訴你幾個非常棒的酒吧，還有一些游泳和潛水的聖地。

Shawn: Sounds really good. I was also thinking of going on a road trip around Mexico, maybe head up to Puerta Viarta.

肖恩：聽起來真不錯。我還想在墨西哥附近進行公路旅行，也許會去Puerta Viarta。

Senem: Uh, could we get an international driving license really easy, yeah!

塞內姆：嗯，我們能輕鬆地獲得國際駕照嗎？

Shawn: Actually, I can drive around on my Canadian license without any problems.

肖恩：實際上，我可以用我的加拿大駕照開車，完全沒問題。

Senem: Wow, that is so convenient.

塞內姆：哇，那真是太方便了。

Shawn: Yeah, it is, and also, I'm, you know, the Baja pennisula is only a short boat ride away, we could also head to there.

肖恩：是啊，而且你知道，坐船去巴哈半島很近，我們也可以去那裏。

Senem: That would be so awesome.

塞內姆：那真是太棒了。

Shawn: Right, and you know one place I really want to go is Mexico city. I heard it's huge and humid, it's crowded but boy I think it would be fun.

肖恩：是啊，你知道我非常想去的地方是墨西哥城。我聽說那裏又大潮溼，而且很擁擠，不過我想那會很有趣的。

Senem: How about the hotels there?

塞內姆：那裏的酒店怎麼樣？

Shawn: What are the hotels like? It is expensive or?

肖恩：酒店怎麼樣？是問價格還是？

Senem: Well, I'm sure they have really cheap hotels but the hotels I stayed in were medium to pretty high priced, so if we're going to go together maybe we should think about splitting a hotel room.

塞內姆：嗯，我確定那裏有很便宜的酒店，但是我住的酒店價格在中等和昂貴之間，所以如果我們一起去的話我們可以考慮住一個房間。

Shawn: I'm up for that.

肖恩：我沒問題。

Senem: Alright, great.

塞內姆：好的，太好了。

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